Faucet attachment for barrels



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- P.J ROTH.

PAUGET ATTACHMENT FOR BABRELS. No. 247,852., Patnte'd'Oot. 4,1881.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PIUS J. ROTH, OF TARRYTOWN, NEW YORK.

FAUCET ATTACHMENT FOR BARRELSf SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 247,852, dated October 4, 1881.

Application filed February 12, 1881. (No model.)

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, PIUs J. ROTH, of Tarrytown, in the county of Westchesterand State of New York, have invented an Improved Bung-Lining and Faucet Attachment for Barrels, of which the following is a specification.

Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section of my improved bung-lining for barrels; Fig. 2, a front view of the same, showing it in place on the barrel-head; Fig. 3, a front view of the same when disconnected from the barrel-head and open for use. Fig. 4 is a top view of the same.

This invention relates to a permanent attachment for barrels as a means of connecting thereto the faucets whenever desired.

The invention consists, principally, in pro viding the bung-lining, which is permanently secured in the barrel-head, with a revolving spigot between a supporting-shoulder and projecting ears, and also with a screw-thread in front, by means of which it can beeonnected to the faucet, the sc"e\\"thread being, by preference, an external screw-thread to admit the attaelnnent of an ordinary faucet.

I am aware that heretofore barrels have had bung-linings made of metal; but such bunglinings, if provided with valves within the recess in front of the barrelheads, required expensive caps as means of securing them in place. My invention differs from these former devices in providing the bung-lining with a revolving spigot between a supporting-shoulder and supporting-earaso that it can be attached to the barrel without the necessity of an external cap. The spigot is independently turned to admit the liquor to the faucet or shut it ofi from the same, as may be desired.

In the accompanying drawings, thelctter A represents the tubular body of the bung-lining. It is made of brass or other suitable metal, and provided with an external shoulder, a, which is adapted to bear against the head B of the barrel, as shown. Theinner end of the lining A is or may be perforated, as shown at b in the drawings, to serve as a strainer. The outer end of the lining A has a screw-thread applied,

as shown at d in Fig. 4:, to receive the faucet,

with which the outer part of the lining A is provided. These ears 0 bear against the face of the barn l-head, as is clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 4.

In front of the shoulder a, and back of the threaded portion (1 and of the ears 0, is put through the tube A a spigot, O, by means of which the tubular passage through the tuloe A may be clo ed or opened at will. The outer end of this spigot is made square, as in Fig. 4, or of such other form as will permit it to be turned by a removable key. In fitting this attachment to a barrel, l sink the spigot into the head by providing a proper recess, g, in the latter for this purpose, as is clearly shown in Fig. 1, so that in transportation the spigot will notbe exposed to contaetwith other things, and therefore not liable to be opened or otherwise brought out of order. When the barrel is being transported or not used, a suitable cap, 1:, may be screwed upon the outer end of the lining A, and when the barrel is to be used this cap it is removed and a suitable faucet attached. Yet the faucet cannot be used until the owner of the key sees fit to open the spigot 0. This attachment also permits the ready discharge of superfluous gas from the barrel.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

. The tubular bung-lining A, having threaded portion at, projecting ears 6, and shoulder a, in combination with the spigot G, which is fitted through the lining A hack of the ears 8 and in front of shoulder a, substantially as described.

PIUS J. ROTH.

' Witnesses:

XAVIER ROTH, WILLY G. E. SCHULTZ. 

